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TIL the Rolling-Right-Turn on red is the number one cause of car accidents in the US

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GarN TIL the current English Queen was courted by Prince Philip when he was 18 and she was only 13. They are also cousins.
9wkKm TIL that the oldest surviving globe in the world is named Erdapfel (in English, potato) doesnt feature the american continents since they weren't discoverd yet, and potato's originally came from the continents
VMlxB TIL that 90% of the coal we use today only exists because 300 million years ago, microbes that could ingest wood, did not exist, so trees would fall on top of each other, and the weight of all that heavy wood, over millions of years, would compress those trees into peat and then, into coal.
OGJ8Y TIL in 2003 the German government tried to ban far-right political party NPD but failed because the government informants in the party had written too much of the material used against them in the trial
Oon4a TIL A Russian family survived 40 years in the Siberian wilderness cut off from all human contact, unaware of WWII